No 2,111

Occupations: Agony aunt, husky-voiced TV presenter, literary judge, charity fundraiser, film critic (she wrote the Mariella at the Movies column for the News of the World), actor (a turn in the Vagina Monologues).

Anagram: Oral film part? Sure!

Stop that. Just because you can make a suggestive anagram of a glamorous blonde celebrity's name (Ulrika Jonsson, for instance, yields "Sin journals? OK!"), doesn't mean that you should traduce an intelligent woman in this shabby way. Good point. After all, Mariella is a former judge of both the Orange and Booker literary prizes. She's a woman who should be taken seriously for her intellectual properties rather than those on show at www.fortunecity.co.uk/cinerama/thriller/161/oops_mariella_frostrup.html.

Indeed. Why, she's just written an introduction to a poetry anthology which is attracting a lot of attention in the Times Literary Supplement.

Why is that? Mariella's foreword to The Nation's Favourite Poems of Desire (BBC, £6.99) includes the following: "Poetry is desire's chosen language... Desire is the emotion that sets us apart form the rest of the animal kingdom."

Fine words. What does the TLS make of them? "You only have to see a dog chasing a stick on Hampstead Heath to disagree with that." It also complains that the editor's name (Alex Warwick) isn't mentioned on the jacket.

Typical of the snooty detractors trying to rubbish this smoky-and/or husky-voiced, Oslo-born, Dublin-raised, Notting Hill-living penseur. Absolutely. When are people going to learn that there's more to Mariella than being the woman accused "of pinching Anneka Rice's husband" and being romantically linked to George Clooney and Chris Evans?

Not to mention pigeonholing her as Bananarama's former PR and ex-spouse of one-time Skids frontman Richard Jobson. Quite.